BACTERIAL QUALITY OF READY TO EAT MEALS IN AIR CATERING

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Dept. of Food Hygiene, ; Faculty of Vet.Med.Cairo university, Giza, Egypt .

Abstract

Food produced from animal sources needs Special care
because of its great role played in transmission of
the food borne infections. Eggs and meat meal are
considered as a main reservoir for a variety of zoon-
otic diseases rather than there are different diseases
transmitted from man to man through the contamination
of different types of foods during preparation, distri-
bution and storage of meals.
 
Catering is one of the food serving establishments
supplying the aircrafts with the different types of
meals. Eggs and meat are considered as the main
constituents of such meals given to passengers, there-
fore its contamination with food poisoning organisms
constitutes a public health hazard to consumers part~
icularly passengers and crew (Kunstler & Ahlert, 1980;
WHO, 1983; Dawarakanth & Murthy, 1984 and Hassan,
1986).



Prepared meals in air catering plants should be there-
 fore subjected to strict hygienic measure to ensure
the food safety. This required the used of sound food
Materials, clean and sterile equipment, clean and 
hygienic stores as well as good health of the food
Preparing employees to produce meals of good keeping
Quality and free from hazard to human health (Gork
,1985).
 

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